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 Native Tours The Anthropology of Travel and Tourism
Erve Chambers
We are all tourists in an increasingly portable world. Tourism has the potential to increase our understanding of other cultures and places. Why then do so many of us try to avoid applying the term “tourist” to our own travels, and why are tourists so often disparaged and resented in the places they visit? For decades tourism has been regarded as a trivial activity, not worthy of serious intellectual interest. In the meantime, it has become one of the largest industries in the world, transforming the places in which we live—major towns and cities or the most remote regions of the globe. Tourism is also the most intimate of all industries, bringing people of strikingly different backgrounds into close but also almost invariably transient relationships. Chambers shares many of his own travel experiences and research in this book and invites us to explore the cultural and environmental consequences of our own travels. He offers detailed case studies of tourism in the American Southwest, the Tirolean Alps, and the Caribbean nation of Belize. A unique feature of the book is Chambers’ discussion of the development of Japanese tourism as an antidote to the prevalent notion that modern tourism was solely an invention of the West.
 $13.95 list, 137 pages 10-digit ISBN: 1-57766-089-7 13-digit ISBN: 978-1-57766-089-7 © 2000
“The author weaves together a historical review and critical commentary that allows him to draw new insights in our understanding of tourism.” — Barbara Rose Johnston, Center for Political Ecology
“This short volume is jam packed with informative summaries of what anthropologists have written on various facets of tourism over the past fifteen years or so. Written in an easy-to-read, even somewhat chatty style, the discussion is balanced and accurate overall, and is accompanied by a useful and very modern set of references.” — Australian Journal of Anthropology
Table of Contents
1. From Travel to Tourism Travel in Historical Perspective / The Advent of Modern Tourism / The Tourist as Subject / Case Study: Touring the American Southwest 2. Tourism, Society, and the Political Economy Tourism and Economic Development / The Distribution of Economic Costs and Benefits / Tourism as Work / Tourism Policies and Plans / Transnational Dimensions of Tourism / The Politics of Representation / Social Consequences of Tourism / Tourism and Gender / Case Study: Tirol and Rural Tourism 3. Nature, Tourism, and the Environment Environmental Impacts of Tourism / Tourism to Natural Places / People as Nature / Ecotourism / Case Study: Ecotourism in Belize 4. Tourism and Culture Tradition, Authenticity, and Modernity / Tourism and Ethnicity / The Language of Tourism / Material Culture, Performance, and the Built Environment / Tourism in Place and Space / Tourism in Global and Local Perspective / Epilogue
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